San Sebastian Film Festival 2025

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Copper (Cobre) (Country: Mexico, Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Nicolás Pereda; Stars: Lázaro Rodríguez, Rosa Estela Juárez)
A long-suffering mine employee’s life takes an unexpected turn after he finds a corpse on the side of the road.
Cuerpo Celeste (Country: Italy, France, Chile; Year: 2025; Director: Nayra Ilic; Writer: Nayra Ilic; Stars: Mariana Loyola, Daniela Ramírez, Néstor Cantillana, Nicolás Contreras, Helen Mrugalski)
Celeste is a carefree 15-year-old coming of age after the fall of Pinochet when her life changes drastically and unexpectedly.
Dolores (Country: Brazil; Year: 2025; Director: Maria Clara Escobar , Marcelo Gomes)
On the eve of her 65th birthday, Dolores has a premonition: her life is about to change. She will own a successful casino. However, her gambling addiction of the past may work against her.
Elder Son (Hijo Mayor) (Country: Argentina, France; Year: 2025; Director: Cecilia Kang; Stars: Chang Sung Kim, Sang Bin Suh, Anita B Queen)
A Korean family decides to look for new opportunities and find ways of grieving for what they have lost on the way: Lila, a young Korean-Argentinean girl, navigates the contradictions of her identity and tries to find her place in the world. Meanwhile, her father Antonio arrives in Latin America 18 years earlier as a young man in search of new horizons, deciding to bet everything he has on the promise of a young immigrant's dream.
The Ivy (Hiedra) (Country: Ecuador, Mexico, France, Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Ana Cristina Barragan; Writer: Ana Cristina Barragán; Stars: Simone Bucio, Francis Eddú Llumiquinga)
Azucena, a 30-year-old woman, spies on the teenagers of a group home. In their games and sense of brotherhood, she searches for fragments of her own past.
Landmarks (Nuestra Tierra) (Country: Argentina, US, Mexico, France, Netherlands, Denmark; Year: 2025; Director: Lucrecia Martel; Writer: María Alché, Lucrecia Martel; Stars: Comunidad Chuschagasta, Javier Chocobar)
Armed men killed Indigenous leader Javier Chocobar during attempted eviction in Argentina, 2009. After years of protests, a court case opened in 2018. This is a story of community voices and trial footage amid colonial land struggles.
Limpia (Country: Chile; Year: 2025; Director: Dominga Sotomayor)
Psychological thriller telling the story of the intense relationship between Estela, a domestic worker, and the six-year-old girl she cares for day and night.
Opening film
A Loose End (Un cabo suelto) (Country: Uruguay, Argentina, Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Daniel Hendler; Stars: Sergio Prina, Pilar Gamboa, Alberto Wolf)
Santiago, an Argentinian police constable, crosses the border into Uruguay on the run from the other police officers on his trail.
The Message (El Mensaje) (Country: Argentina, Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Iván Fund; Writer: Iván Fund; Stars: Marcelo Subiotto, Mara Bestelli, Anika Bootz, Betania Cappato)
A young girl and her grandparents travel the Argentinian countryside as she gives pet owners psychic readings of their animals.
The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo (Country: Chile; Year: 2025; Director: Diego Céspedes; Writer: Diego Céspedes; Stars: Tamara Cortes, Matías Catalán, Paula Dinamarca)
1982. Eleven-year-old Lidia lives with her beloved queer family in a desert mining town in northern Chile. As an unknown and deadly disease begins to spread, legend has it that it is transmitted between two men, through a simple glance, when they fall in love. While people are accusing her family, Lidia must find out whether this myth is real or not.
Olmo (Country: US, Mexico; Year: 2025; Director: Fernando Eimbcke; Writer: Fernando Eimbcke, Vanesa Garnica; Stars: Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Valentin Mexico, Melanie Frometa, Humberto Castro, Aivan Uttapa, Andrea Suarez Paz, Denielle Fisher Johnson, Rosa Armendariz, Justin Peach, Marc A. Moffett)
When a teenage carer gets invited to a party, he will do anything he can to get out of his duties.
A Poet (Una Poeta) (Country: Colombia, Germany, Sweden; Year: 2025; Director: Simón Mesa Soto; Writer: Simón Mesa Soto; Stars: Guillermo Cardona, Rebeca Andrade, Ubeimar Rios, Humberto Restrepo, Margarita Soto, Allison Correa)
Oscar Restrepo’s obsession with poetry brought him no glory. Aging and erratic, he has succumbed to the cliché of the poet in the shadows. Meeting Yurlady, a teenage girl from humble roots, and helping her cultivate her talent brings some light to his days, but dragging her into the world of poets may not be the way.
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